The 13th Texas Legislature met from January 14 to June 4, 1873 in its regular session. All members of the Texas House of Representatives and about half of the members of the Texas Senate were elected in 1872.
Sessions 13th Regular session: January 14–June 4, 1873
Officers Senate Lieutenant Governor Vacant President pro tempore (Lieutenant Governor ex officio) Edward Bradford Pickett, Democrat
House of Representatives Speaker of the House M. D. K. Taylor, Democrat
Members Members of the Thirteenth Texas Legislature at the beginning of the Regular Session, January 14, 1873:
Senate District Senator Party Took office 1 Edward Bradford Pickett Democrat 1870 2 William H. Swift Democrat 1871 3 James Elizer Dillard Democrat 1871 4 Thomas J. Word Democrat 1872 5 David Webster Flanagan Republican 1870 6 John Lane Henry Democrat 1872 7 Henry Rawson Republican 1870 8 Hamilton J. Avinger Democrat 1872 9 Henry Russell Latimer Democrat 1870 10 David W. Cole Democrat 1870 11 Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney Democrat 1870 12 George Thompson Ruby Republican 1870 13 Francis J. Franks Republican 1872 14 James G. Tracy Republican 1872 15 Edward T. Randle Republican 1872 16 Matthew Gaines Republican 1870 17 William A. Saylor Republican 1870 18 Phidello W. Hall Republican 1870 19 S. W. Ford Republican 1870 20 William H. Pyle Democrat 1870 21 Samuel Evans 1870 22 E. Thomas Broughton 1870 23 Andrew J. Ball Democrat 1872 24 George Preston Finlay Democrat 1872 (Prior: 1861–1863) 25 Robert P. Tendick Republican 1871 26 Joseph D. Sayers Democrat 1872 27 Thomas H. Baker Republican 1870 28 Nathan George Shelley Democrat 1872 (Prior: 1861–1863, 1865–1867) 29 Henry C. King Democrat 1872 30 Albert Jennings Fountain Republican 1870
House of Representatives
C. L. Abbott John Adriance Richard Allen Thomas G. Allison Em Anderson James Monroe Anderson James Armstrong Julius Berends Samuel Bewley W.S. Bledsoe Augustus J. Booty Richard Bordeaux A. S. Broaddus Bluford Brown John Henry Brown Edward Chambers John Carroll Gustave Cook John Cunningham Overton Fletcher Davenport Samuel Day Ashley Denton Peter Diller John N. Doyle James Eastland W. A. Ellett Henry Harrison Ford Louis Frankee C.C. Galloway Robert Gaston Henry Clay Ghent (Seventeenth District, including Bell and Milam Counties) Levi Gillette Henry Addington Gilpin William Greene James Marshall Harrison Thomas Hester Gustav V. Hoffmann Orlando Newton Hollingsworth John Ireland Thomas M. Joseph Josiah Kemble Ira Killough Marcellus Kleberg William Lane Johann Frederic Leyendecker Abner Smith Lipscomb William Mabry Hilary Manning John M. McDonald F.A. Michael J. S. Mills Henry Moore William Morris Hudson Nelson Julius Noeggerath Jonathan Payne Henry Phelps Stephen Powers Davis M. Prendergast Frank Rainey Burlington Wesley Rimes Sam Robb Shack Roberts David Decatur Rosborough Alexander Rossey Jonathan Russell Chauncey Brewer Sabin Charles Partin Salter William Sayers Erich F. Schmidt Preston Scott Edward Sharp W.A. Shaw Eli Shelton Daniel Short George Washington Smith John T. Smith Leonidas Jefferson Storey Charles Stockbridge M. D. K. Taylor Alfred Sturgis Thurmond William Tilson Joseph Albert TivyHandbook of Texas Online John Files TomLone Stars III William H. Trolinger K. M. Van Zandt William Veale Stephen Venters U.G. Mitchell Walker James H. Washington Arthur Thomas Watts William Westfall Allen W. Wilder Richard Williams Clinton McKamy Winkler William Daniel Wood
Representative Allen was apparently re-elected, but House Democrats alleged voting fraud and seated his Democratic opponent instead.
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